Right, for all you bell ends who just can't face it that i have found an alternative way to lower the front end of your connect - i have spent the morning taking the front suspension off again just to put some pictures up to stop you whinging and bitching like a bunch of f*** babies.....
HERE IS THE FRONT FOCUS MK2 RS SPRING FITTED TO THE VAN....
HERE IS THE LEG REMOVED FROM THE VAN WITH THE FOCUS MK2 RS SPRING FITTED....
as you can see it uses the standard Transit Connect top mount and bearing....
and fits the bottom cup perfect...
THIS NEXT PICTURE IS FOR THE SCAREMONGERS WHO THINK THAT THE SPRING IS LOOSE IN THE LEG - IT 100% IS NOT LOOSE - DO YOU UNDERSTAND !!!!
THE TOP OF THE SHOCK WITH THE THREAD ON JUST POKES THROUGH THE TOP MOUNT, WHEN THE NUT IS SCREWED TIGHT IT PUSHES THE SPRING DOWN A FURTHER 15mm THUS MAKING THE SPRING TIGHT ENOUGH IN THE LEG -
ONCE AGAIN IT IS NOT LOOSE !!!!The spring is squeezed very slightly with my hand to expose the thread - simple.
Now, for comparison i went a bit further and i borrowed my pal's Focus MK1 RS front springs, top cups and top mounts.
I then fitted these to my Transit Connect leg to show the scaremongers out there that the MK1 RS SPRING AND THE MK2 RS SPRING fit the same with regards to whether you need a spring compressor to fit them.....
FOCUS MK1 RS front spring inside the Connect leg.
Now the spring WITHOUT and top nut on the shock absorber... NO SPRING COMPRESSOR REQUIRED HERE EITHER !!!!
All that is required is to squeeze the spring slightly to expose the thread, then tighten up the nut to take up any slack - simple !!
So the MK1RS & MK2 RS springs DO NOT need a spring compressor to fit them, so according to "certain" people on here the spring MUST to be loose inside the leg, so everyone who's fitted the MK1 RS springs to their van had better go and change them because they are DANGEROUS - or NOT as i've proved !!!
I'm NOT going to defend what i've done any further, get over it and stop bloody harping on about petty moans you have, i'm not some 16 year old kid who's just learnt to pick up a spanner, i do know a thing or two and i am the sort of person who doesn't "scaremonger", i work with what i know and NOT what i think i know.
If you don't like this method then don't use it - SIMPLES !!!!
cheers
Andy